Clark v. Murtagh

E. W. Clark, appellee herein, was elected to the state Senate at the election held in the fall of 1928, for a four-year term to begin in 1929. He duly qualified for the office. He served during the sessions of the Forty-third and Forty-fourth General Assemblies. The term for which he was elected expired early in January, 1933. He did not resign the office. Code, section 8605, required the Governor, within sixty days following the organization of the general assembly in the year 1931, to appoint, with the approval of two-thirds of the members of the senate, a commissioner of insurance, for a…